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Standard Tibetan §Padmakara used the 1990 edition printed by si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang: [[Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990)]]. Also found in Derge Tengyur D3871, dbu ma, vol. 105, la 1b1–40a7.

Tsadra Critical Edition §This text was created by comparing four versions of the text from Derge, Cone, Narthang, and Peking Tengyurs from BDRC scans, along with Dunhuang manuscripts IOL Tib J 628, 629, and 630. When Tibetan readings were problematic, the Sanskrit texts from GRETIL and LTB (Oslo) were consulted.

Standard Tibetan §Padmakara used the 1990 edition printed by si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang: Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990). Also found in Derge Tengyur D3871, dbu ma, vol. 105, la 1b1–40a7.

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དེས་ན་རྨི་ལམ་བུ་ཤི་ལ། །

དེ་མེད་སྙམ་པའི་རྣམ་རྟོག་ནི། ། དེ་ཡོད་རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་ཡི། །

གེགས་ཡིན་དེ་ཡང་བརྫུན་པ་ཡིན། །

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140

When therefore in one’s dream a child has died,

The state of mind that thinks it is no more Supplants the thought that it is living still.

And yet both thoughts are equally deceptive.

Padmakara 2006

The Way of the Bodhisattva (2006)

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Standard Tibetan §Padmakara used the 1990 edition printed by si khron mi rigs dpe skrun khang: Byang chub sems dpa'i spyod pa la 'jug pa rtsa ba dang 'grel pa (1990). Also found in Derge Tengyur D3871, dbu ma, vol. 105, la 1b1–40a7. - Other translations

Thus, when one’s son dies in a dream,

The conception “He does not exist” Removes the thought that he does exist,

But it is also delusive. [140]

Brunnhölzl 2004

The Center of the Sunlit Sky

Ainsi peut-on rêver que l’on perd un enfant :

L’idée qu’il n’est plus supplante L’idée qu’il vivait

Tout en restant une idée fausse.

Padmakara France 2007

Bodhicaryâvatâra: La marche vers l'éveil (2007)

Así cuando se sueña que un niño ha muerto,

el estado mental que piensa que ya no está suplanta al pensamiento de que todavía está vivo.

Pero ambos pensamientos son igualmente irreales.

Padmakara Spain 2008

La Práctica del Bodisatva

Then, the thought thinking,

‘The dream child has passed away’ Cancels the thought thinking that it

Exists, and is false.[p.71]The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors
Stracke, Fedor, trans. The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors: A Commentary on the Introduction to the Actions of Bodhisattvas. By Gyaltsab Rinpoche. N.p.: Happy Monks Publication, 2016. https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/.

Stracke 2016

The Entrance for the Children of the Conquerors

Therefore, if a dream child dies,

The conceptual thought of his non-existence Is the antidote to the conceptual thought of his existence,

Which is also false.

Chodron & Gyaltsen 2019

A Commentary on Shantideva's Engaging in the Conduct of the Bodhisattvas

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Tsadra Critical Edition §This text was created by comparing four versions of the text from Derge, Cone, Narthang, and Peking Tengyurs from BDRC scans, along with Dunhuang manuscripts IOL Tib J 628, 629, and 630. When Tibetan readings were problematic, the Sanskrit texts from GRETIL and LTB (Oslo) were consulted.

དེས་ན་རྨི་ལམ་བུ་ཤི་ལ། །

དེ་མེད་སྙམ་པའི་རྣམ་རྟོག་ནི། ། དེ་ཡོད་རྣམ་པར་རྟོག་པ་ཡི། །

གེགས་ཡིན་དེ་ཡང་བརྫུན་པ་ཡིན། །

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